Drafts of a Suicide Note

Ten unique suicide notes, no dead body, and a washed-up academic who thinks literary scholarship can solve this mystery. Rife with innovative textual experiments, touches of humor, and dramatic intrigue, Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s Drafts of a Suicide Note is a challenging and satisfying read. In a book fu......more

What a tale - unusually set in Bermuda and unusually entirely expressed in Bermudian. It's a version of English utterly its own, so much so that it comes close to being a character in its own right. The novel is charming and gripping and horrifying. Funny and sad and frivolous and dark. A story, you......more

A delightfully disturbing journey into one man's obsession with the psychological state of another. Set in Bermuda, the locale seems to be a character all its own; providing a rich, colorful tapestry and background to this engaging and mysterious novel. Each character is its own self-contained myste......more

Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s DRAFTS OF A SUICIDE NOTE is a smart, elegant, genre-defying exploration of our propensity to flee our true selves, especially when those selves are at odds with our family and culture of origin. The protagonist, Kenji Okada-Caines, is a chronic underachiever except for his white......more

An alluring mystery that is wholly impressive in how it outmaneuvers the reader at every turn. Wong deliciously navigates through an elaborate design of deception and intrigue. Every answer brings with it more questions; every suicide note, more turmoil inflicted on Kenji’s personal life. The charac......more